Top 42 I Would Rather Be Poor Quotes
#2. I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Thomas Beecham
#3. Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
#4. When I look at the fields, all I can see is how fake they are, how poor an imitation they are of the pictures of Sol-Earth fields.
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And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is.
Because I like a little chaos.
Beth Revis
#5. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne
#7. I choose kindness ... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
Max Lucado
#8. When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars.
Anita Diamant
#9. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Jose Mujica
#10. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.
David McCullough
#11. All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.
Peter Croft
#12. Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That's just fine. It's just the poor who aren't supposed to cooperate.
Noam Chomsky
#13. I cough. "Oh, doctor. I think I'm sick I need some penis-cilin." I fake cough again into my hand. "Poor patient. What will I ever do?" He shoots me a crooked smile and I begin to pant in torturous anticipation.
S.K. Logsdon
#14. For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#15. Truly, I've learned more theology living in poor neighborhoods than in classrooms. At times I wonder if the questions of traditional theology have any meaning for the poor. And "the poor" here mean eighty percent of the population! (Ivone Gebara, p. 209)
Mev Puleo
#16. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.
Annie Proulx
#17. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Fanny Fern
#18. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#19. I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
#20. I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
Homer
#21. I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles
Homer
#23. You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.
Jeannette Walls
#24. And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
Og Mandino
#25. Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.
Agatha Christie
#28. Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
Mario Monti
#29. What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#30. Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
Beset with every ill but that of fear.
The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.
William Cowper
#31. fellow,' said the Father of the Marshalsea, laying his hand upon his shoulder, and mildly rallying him - mildly, because of his weakness, poor dear soul;
Charles Dickens
#32. If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a poor person. He will probably buy something for eat or he will get out of his misery.
Deyth Banger
#33. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged ...
Bryan Stevenson
#35. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
#37. I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Jeff Bridges
#38. I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he's ruined it. I can't make another joke about him.
Joan Rivers
#39. The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
Will Rogers
#40. In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
Zainab Salbi
#41. What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo
#42. Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how to wear poor clothes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
